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The rules, explained for UK teams.

A free tender compliance matrix, in-depth briefings on UK public-sector bidding, and a plain-English glossary, built around CrowMark for Suppliers.

Free tool

Free tender compliance matrix

Rule based, the same way CrowMark reads a notice internally. No account, no email gate, no credit card. Use it, share the result, then request access if you want the full audit trail.

Tender Compliance Matrix

Paste the text of a tender and read back the requirements its wording states, each one shown with the line it came from. Nothing is uploaded and nothing is generated.

Open tool

Guides

In-depth guides

Long-form analysis written in-house. Each article cites the policy note, Act or section it rests on, not somebody else's summary of it.

PPN 002

PPN 002 Social Value: How the 10% Weighting Works

A minimum 10% social value weighting now applies to in-scope central government contracts. How the National TOMs measures and National TOMs proxies turn into a defensible, bid-ready score.

7 min read · March 2026

Methodology

How the rules are sourced

Every figure on this site is published with the statute, policy note or framework it rests on. No black box.

Glossary

Glossary of procurement terms

Plain-English definitions of the regulations, frameworks and acronyms that come up in UK public-sector bidding.

PPN 002, PPN 06/20, National TOMs, and more.

Start with the workflow you need now.

CrowMark: find UK public-sector tenders, draft grounded social-value answers, and prove delivery, all in one workspace.